It’s quite refreshing to discover that not all Danish crime series are in the gloomy mode of the usual Nordic Noir. The Killing and The Bridge are fine complex series, but there was plenty of […]
Penélope Cruz is at the centre of this drama. It’s about a woman taking charge of her life after a diagnosis of breast cancer, and ultimately finding love with a new family. Although it is […]
Evolution is a gloriously unsettling film which gets right under the skin without doing very much. Less is very much more in this French tale of child exploitation and horror. The film is a body-shock horror […]
From the all powerful Studio Ghibli, When Marnie Was There is a beautiful animated feature about friendship and loneliness. Released in Japan in 2014 and in the US (in a dubbed version) last year, we are latecomers […]
There is a surprising wealth of fiction about the dispossessed dead returning to help the living through the grieving process, and supernatural love story Journey to the Shore is a welcome addition. The film, from […]